#Covid

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

“How is Covid 19 getting into care homes? Through staff.This is where lack of testing is a real problem.With so many staff self isolating, agency staff are becoming more &

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

The US gov threatened to cut off aid to @WHO today. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/coronavirus-updates-news-live.html#link-5e3b2c82 This would be a mistake on many levels. 1/x .@WHO is the organization that provides health guidance and

David Sinclair, PhD

davidasinclair

Deaths from non #covid causes are way down, with a reported 40-60% drop in heart attack patients! Purported cause is people not going to hospital. But could it be the

Anti-Communist Ashman 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇮🇱

danny_ashman

1. Communist ideology and how Covid-19 is a Revolutionary moment. 2. The Bolsheviks took power mobilizing versus a class enemy. The bourgeois were oppressing the common man.#bourgeois 3. What is

Julian Jessop

julianHjessop

Just found this handy (if grim) charting tool from @OurWorldInData https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-deaths-and-cases-covid-19?time=1..81Here’s #coronavirus deaths per million for a selection of European countries (this could of course change

Radhika Radhakrishnan (she/her)

so_radhikal

At the start of 2020, I began speaking with communities facing COVID-19 surveillance and people working with them to understand the situation. Now 8 months later, based on these conversations,

Mark Glaser

mediatwit

We've all heard that #COVID is an "extinction event" for local news, but what about the bright spots where local news is making a difference? We've worked on a Civic

Elemental

elemental

In April, blood clots emerged as a mysterious symptom of coronavirus.Soon after, we began hearing reports of Covid-19 patients dying from strokes.Then came “Covid toes.”What do all these symptoms have

Ed Brown

efb_1

US all-cause mortality data - an update.Here is the big picture over the last ~4 years. Substantial excess mortality. Looked at slightly differently, each year with a different line, overlaid

Jason H. Karp

humankarp

There is not enough conversation about how humans can strengthen our immune systems and improve our anti-fragility through nutrition and better lifestyle choices. COVID-19 and other threats to the human

Joshua Gans

joshgans

Just wanted to make a quick point of agent-based versus more standard epidemiological models. I claimed that agent-based models have a smooth landscape. That is, of course to start. They

The Economic Standard

econstandard

The Economic Standard is proud to present our first white paper: Hydroxychloroquine and the Burden of Proofhttp://HCQWhitePaper.com We demonstrate why #HCQ should be more widely recommended, prescribed and promoted to treat

RenCouncil

RenCouncil

We can confirm Covid19 Test and Protect contact tracing is today being carried out at @renfrew_high. All parents and carers with a child at the school have been contacted via

Dɔkɔlɔ the Dyke

dokolothedyke

Oh fuck no. All comrades need to be speaking on this, period.Congo accounts for 0.01% of global COVID-19 cases. In contrast the US. alone accounts for a fucking QUARTER (25%)

Krista Wiegand

drkristawiegand

Female publications rates from 1999-2019: on average 26.4% of political science journal articles are by female authors. It doesn't seem to be improving either. As a female scholar, this is

Amy Proal, PhD

microbeminded2

This study found that Epstein Barr #Virus (EBV) IgM antibody seropositive #COVID-19 patients had a 3.09-fold increased risk of fever compared to EBV seronegative patients. Inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein